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Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism is a book written by sociologist Lucien van der Walt and journalist Michael Schmidt that deals with "the ideas, history and relevance of the broad anarchist tradition through a survey of 150 years of global history." The book includes a preface by Scottish anarchist and former prisoner Stuart Christie.

Conceived as the first of two volumes in the authors' Counter-Power series, Black Flame is a thematic work on the history and theory of global anarchism and syndicalism. Its sequel, Global Fire, was to present a global historical narrative of the movement, but was cancelled by AK Press after the revelation that Michael Schmidt had ties to white nationalism.

A German translation of Black Flame appeared in late 2013, entitled Schwarze Flamme: Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik im Anarchismus und Syndikalismus, with Greek and Spanish translations nearing publication.